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What is the full files app that the Community is recommending to solve this issue with IPAD documents
thanks
What is the full files app that the Community is recommending to solve this issue with IPAD documents
thanks
The Files App is the App that you may be looking for. If you can’t find the App on one of your Home Pages, or in an App folder, try looking within the App Library itself.
Use the App Library and Home Screen to organize your iPad apps - Apple Support
If you have deleted the Files App from your iPad, it can be reinstalled from the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/files/id1232058109
As for the behaviour that I believe you observe, I’ll try to explain what you see - and why. Nothing is broken.
If using the in-App file browser within Apple’s native Pages, Numbers and Keynote Apps, only the files relating to that App are directly accessible; other files within the filesystem are visible - but are deliberately shown with Grey file icons; this indicates that the file-type cannot be opened from within the current “active” App.
If you wish to edit, move or delete any of the files with grey icons, then you should use the Files App - which allows access to all files within the filesystem.
Given that the respective file browser UI’s are otherwise identical in appearance, it is easy to forget which file browser you are currently using (in-App, or Files) at any one time - but there is a visual indication that, when you’re “tuned in”, everything should become a little more obvious…
This strategy in differentiating files by App is intended to avoid accidental deletion or changes to files that, ideally, should be stored with the App that is most appropriate for the document type.
The Files App is the App that you may be looking for. If you can’t find the App on one of your Home Pages, or in an App folder, try looking within the App Library itself.
Use the App Library and Home Screen to organize your iPad apps - Apple Support
If you have deleted the Files App from your iPad, it can be reinstalled from the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/files/id1232058109
As for the behaviour that I believe you observe, I’ll try to explain what you see - and why. Nothing is broken.
If using the in-App file browser within Apple’s native Pages, Numbers and Keynote Apps, only the files relating to that App are directly accessible; other files within the filesystem are visible - but are deliberately shown with Grey file icons; this indicates that the file-type cannot be opened from within the current “active” App.
If you wish to edit, move or delete any of the files with grey icons, then you should use the Files App - which allows access to all files within the filesystem.
Given that the respective file browser UI’s are otherwise identical in appearance, it is easy to forget which file browser you are currently using (in-App, or Files) at any one time - but there is a visual indication that, when you’re “tuned in”, everything should become a little more obvious…
This strategy in differentiating files by App is intended to avoid accidental deletion or changes to files that, ideally, should be stored with the App that is most appropriate for the document type.
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